see that they may find here a refuge and relief for their needs.  The land has hitherto been discredited for the little comfort which poor men, both married and single, find here in a country new, unknown, and of scanty resources.  Even these resources are under obligation to be given to others who have settled the place and served your Majesty; and for them alone there is not enough, much less for those newly arrived.  For their relief there should be a lodging-house, so that poor married men may be sheltered there and given what is necessary, until they find it convenient to go out and support themselves.  In addition to all the aforesaid institutions, another no less important one must be mentioned.  A hospital should be established for the treatment of all the servants and slaves of the Spaniards.  This is a very necessary undertaking and a work of exceeding charity; for there are many of these servants who die, as they have nowhere to go for treatment.  Even their souls suffer, as there is some neglect in administering the sacrament to them.  Although there are two hospitals—­the royal, and that for the natives—­the servants are received in neither, on account of the poverty of the hospitals, and the many sick who are usually there, and the lack of conveniences for so many.  As I have written in a former letter, your Majesty should also favor these hospitals, and in particular this holy confraternity of mercy.  Thus I beg your Majesty to do so, in the name of our good God and Lord.  His Divine Majesty will reward, as is His wont, all that is done for His love and service.  In the name of this state, and the poor, and for my own sake, I humbly beg this of your Majesty; and if there be anything of sufficient worth in me to be presented before the royal presence of your Majesty as deserving reward and recompense; I should but ask for favor for these two hospitals, which are so needy, and particularly for this holy confraternity of mercy.  There should also be provided means according to the income, to provide dowries for a certain number of the girls who are sheltered every year in the Seminary of Sancta Potenciana.  Thus it is evident that the state will be totally healed of its evils; and these works of charity will, I believe, be glorious in the eyes of God, especially if your Majesty will look upon them with your royal and compassionate eyes, and encourage them with your royal aid.  May our Lord preserve your Majesty for many long years, as Christendom has need.  At Manila, June 15, 1594.

Luis Perez Dasmarinas

Sire: 

In the papers I send your Majesty by these vessels, I give an account of Japanese affairs and suspicions.  In this letter I shall content myself with saying that when my father made answer to the second Japanese embassy, he sent with father Fray Pedro Baptista, to accompany and take care of the fathers, and with further orders to treat with that king, one Pedro Goncalez, a man who, by trade and commerce, had acquired some